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The radiance of France nuclear power and national identity after World War II

How it happened that technological prowess and national glory (or "radiance," which also means "radiation" in French) became synonymous in France as nowhere else.

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  • "Radiance of France"
  • "Nuclear power and national identity after World War II"

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  • "In the aftermath of World War II, as France sought a distinctive role for itself in the modern, postcolonial world, the nation and its leaders enthusiastically embraced large technological projects in general and nuclear power in particular. The Radiance of France asks how it happened that technological prowess and national glory (or "radiance," which also means "radiation" in French) became synonymous in France as nowhere else. To answer this question, Gabrielle Hecht has forged an innovative combination of technology studies and cultural and political history in a book that, as Michel Callon writes in the new foreword to this edition, "not only sheds new light on the role of technology in the construction of national identities" but is also "a seminal contribution to the history of contemporary France." Proposing the concept of technopolitical regime as a way to analyze the social, political, cultural, and technological dynamics among engineering elites, unionized workers, and rural communities Hecht shows how the history of France's first generation of nuclear reactors is also a history of the multiple meanings of nationalism, from the postwar period (and France's desire for post-Vichy redemption) to 1969 and the adoption of a "Frenchified" American design."
  • "How it happened that technological prowess and national glory (or "radiance," which also means "radiation" in French) became synonymous in France as nowhere else."@en
  • "How it happened that technological prowess and national glory (or "radiance," which also means "radiation" in French) became synonymous in France as nowhere else."
  • "The author of The Radiance of France investigates how technological prowess and national glory (or radiance, which also means radiation in French) became synonymous in France as nowhere else during the post-World War 2 era."

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  • "Electronic resource"
  • "Livres électroniques"
  • "Llibres electrònics"
  • "History"@en
  • "History"
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  • "Electronic books"

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  • "The radiance of France nuclear power and national identity after World War II"@en
  • "The radiance of France nuclear power and national identity after World War II"
  • "Le rayonnement de la France énergie nucléaire et identité nationale après la Seconde guerre mondiale"
  • "The Radiance Of France Nuclear Power And National Identity After World War Ii"
  • "Le rayonnement de la France énergie nucléaire et identité nationale après la seconde guerre mondiale"
  • "Le Rayonnement de la France : Energie nucléaire et identité nationale après la seconde guerre mondiale"
  • "The radiance of France : nuclear power and national identity after World War II"@en
  • "The radiance of France : nuclear power and national identity after World War II"
  • "Le rayonnement de la France : énergie nucléaire et identité nationale après la seconde guerre mondiale"
  • "The Radiance of France : nuclear power and national identity after World War II"

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